Soviet 4th Army

The Soviet 4th Army was a Soviet Red Army field army that existed from 1939 to 1991. The army was stationed in Belarus before taking part in the 1939 invasion of Poland and the defense of the USSR against Nazi Germany during World War II. The army was destroyed after the fighting around Brest, but it was reformed several more times, taking part in the fighting near Volkhov and Leningrad and then being stationed in the Caucasus. The army was headquartered in Baku, Azerbaijan until its dissolution in 1991 on the fall of the USSR.